Denison Theatre 2012-2013
82nd Subscription Season
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
October 4-7 (Thursday-Sunday) & 9-11 (Tuesday-Thursday)
Widely considered Williams' masterwork, this play was a landmark achievement when it premiered on Broadway in 1947 and won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Set in the French Quarter of hot and steamy New Orleans, the play deals with a culture clash between Blanche DuBois, a woman whose life has been undermined by romantic illusions which lead her to reject the realities of her life, and Stanley Kowalski, a rising member of the industrial, urban working class. When Blanche comes to live with her sister, Stella, and brother-in-law, Stanley, she is forced to confront a revelation of her tragic self-delusion.
Theatres of War
by Peter Pauzé
November 8-10 (Thursday-Saturday) & 12-15 (Monday-Thursday)
This quirky and thought-provoking comedy by Denison professor Peter Pauzé takes us on a topsy-turvy trip through the history of American warfare. Our hero is an ordinary WWII G.I. who wonders how and why he ended up lying in the ruins of a French boutique, fatally wounded. He is offered cheerful advice and passionate opinions on the subject from a variety of helpful sources, including his dead parents, his never-to-be-conceived daughter, and a plethora of historical figures ranging from Adolph Hitler to Abraham Lincoln. A smart, searing, and very funny exploration of human aggression, Theatres of War has some material that might not be suitable for children.
The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God
by Djanet Sears
February 28-March 3 (Thursday-Sunday) & March 5-7 (Tuesday-Thursday)
Burke Black Box Theatre
This play reveals an epic story of remarkable love, incredible heists, an extraordinary dying wish, and communities that know pride and keep faith. Rainey Baldwin-Johnson struggles to heal from the loss of her daughter and deal with the disintegration of her marriage and her elderly father's eccentric crusade. Award-winning Canadian playwright Djanet Sears sets this moving, poetic, and ultimately life-affirming drama in present-day Negro Creek, a 200-year-old Black community in Western Ontario.
Tartuffe by Molière, Translated by Ranjit Bolt
April 12-13 (Friday-Saturday) & 16-20 (Tuesday-Saturday)
Ace Morgan Theatre
The religious fraud Tartuffe has hoodwinked rich merchant Orgon and is poised to marry his host’s teenaged daughter, to seduce his lovely wife, and to ruin his gullible patron -- unless someone stops him. Sacrebleu! Moliere’s wicked satire, banned after its first performance in 1664, has been provoking worldwide laughter ever since.
PERFORMANCE TIMES: 8:00 P.M. (EXCEPT FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 2013 - 3:00 P.M.)
THEATRES ARE AIR-CONDITIONED AND WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
THEATRE BOX OFFICE: (740) 587-6527
Theatre Arts Building - 211 W. College Street - Granville, Ohio 43023
Production Archive
The Nerd
by Larry Shue
Ace Morgan Theatre | September 30-October 1 & 4-8
Witty repartee and madcap slapstick are nicely balanced in this very funny play. Rising young architect Willum Cubbert has often told his friends about the debt he owes to Rick Steadman, a fellow ex-GI whom he has never met but who saved his life in Iraq. He had written to Rick, “As long as I’m alive, you will have somebody on this earth who will do anything for you." So when Rick shows up, Willum is thrilled, until it becomes apparent that Rick is a bumbling oaf with no social sense, little intelligence and less tact.
Einstein and the Roosevelts
Book & Lyrics by Gretchen Cryer, Reynolds Playwright-in-Residence
Music by Nancy Ford
Ace Morgan Theatre | November 10-12 & 14-17
This musical takes place at an after-life birthday party for Eleanor Roosevelt, thrown in the cosmos by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, cousin to Franklin Roosevelt and daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt. Notoriously unconventional, Alice has invited Albert Einstein to entertain with his latest invention, a musical method for summoning up moments from the past. With the help of Einstein's violin, buried secrets regarding love, marriage, and politics are fully revealed and passionately wrestled with in this entertaining and educational blending of history and whimsy.
Legacy of Light
by Karen Zacarías
Ace Morgan Theatre | February 24-25 & 28-March 3
Two brilliant women, centuries apart, push the boundaries of science while grappling with motherhood in this theatrically adventurous comedy. The physicist, living in the Age of Enlightenment, races to complete her research before the life-threatening birth of her child. The astrophysicist, living in the present and unable to conceive, hires a quirky and free-spirited surrogate and then turns her attention to her “other child,” a planet she’s discovered. Their legacies collide in this touching and whimsical tale.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
Burke Black Box Theatre | April 20-22 & 25-29
Shakespeare’s energetic comedy takes the problems of young love and amateur play production into the woods, outside the strictures and structures of early Athens. There, the dreamscape is ruled by capricious fairies who struggle for control of a changeling child and entertain themselves by messing with the mortals. The play is a timeless and delightful romp for all ages.
More Information
- Performance Time: 8:00 p.m. – EXCEPT APRIL 22 & 29: 3:00 p.m.
- Theatre Box Office: (740) 587-6527
- Ace Mordan Theatre - Theatre Arts Building - 211 W. College Street - Granville, Ohio
- Burke Black Box Theatre - Burke Hall of Fine Arts - 240 W. Broadway - Granville, Ohio
- General Admission: $8.00, Senior Citizen: $5, Student: $4
- Both theatres are air-conditioned & wheelchair accessible
Past Productions
2009-2010
- Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee - Inherit The Wind Photos
- Departures by Peter Pauze - Departures Photos
- Shipwrecked!- An Entertainment- The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as told by himself ) by Donald Margulies
- Spite for Spite( A collaboration between the Theatre Arts Department and Modern Language Department) by De Augustin Moreto
2008-2009
- Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin
- Something's Afoot
- CATO at the Bakehouse near Headquarters by Mark Bryan
- AHN-SAM-BUL (ENSEMBLE) by Dustin Meltzer and Gonzalo Tuesta
2007-2008
- Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage
- The Romeo and Juliet Project text by William Shakespeare
- Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco
- Discovery of America by Arthur Kopit
2006-2007
- Fires in the Mirror... by Anna Deavere Smith
- King Ubu by Alfred Jarry
- Homebody-Kabul by Tony Kushner
- Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire
2005-2006
- The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute
- Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
- Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon
- The Buckeye You Save May Be Your Own by Jorge Cortinas
2004-2005
- Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Company by George Furth and Stephen Sondheim
2003-2004
- Approaching Zanzibar by Tina Howe
- Room Service by John Murray and Allen Boretz
- Wonderful Town by Bernstein, Fields, Chodorov, Comden and Green
- The Death of Ivan Ilych by Donald Freed
2002-2003
- American Notes by Len Jenkin
- Lysistrata by Aristophanes
- James Joyce's The Dead by Richard Nelson & Shaun Davey
- The Taming of the Shrew Jingju adaptation by Hsing-lin Tracy Chung
2001-2002
- The Dining Room by A. R. Gurney
- Right You Are (If You Think You Are) by Luigi Pirandello
- Everyman
- Perdita Gracia by Caridad Svich
2000-2001
- Hay Fever by Noel Coward
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- Happy End by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
- Rewrites and Eleemosynary by Lee Blessing
1999-2000
- The Waiting Room by Lisa Loomer
- The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca
- The Jungal Book based on the stories of Rudyard Kipling
- Into The Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
- 13 Rue De L'Amour by Georges Feydeau
1998-1999
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
- The Gardener's Dog by Ralph Allen (Adapted from Lope de Vega)
- The Snow Queen by Cynthia Turnbull
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Jay Presson Allen
- The Tragicall Historie of the Life and Death of Christopher Marlowe by Peter Pauzé
1997-1998
- The Hot L Baltimore by Lanford Wilson
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Bernice Bronson
- Pierre by Jeffrey Hatcher
- On The Twentieth Century by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Cy Coleman
- The Lady From The Sea by Henrik Ibsen
1996-1997
- Picnic by William Inge
- Noises Off by Michael Frayn
- City of Angels by Larry Gelbart, Cy Coleman, and David Zippel
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
1995-1996
- Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley
- The Wedding Feast by Arnold Wesker
- Assassins by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman
- The Learned Ladies by Moliere